Bill

NWS bulletins restored

As of a few days ago, the LDM feed has been restored and NWS bulletins are functioning again. The bash script has been tested and found to be functioning correctly, so it has been deployed on the cod server. Whenever the next IP change occurs, the downtime for the LDM feed should be minimal thanks to the script.

NWS bulletins status

LDM functionality to retrieve NWS bulletins are still not operational as of this point. There has been some back and forth between me and the COD staff to get it back online by automating the process on their side to update the IP address of the data server in their appropriate LDM conf file whenever the IP changes.

I wrote a bash script to accomplish this task, but it did not work during their first test runs due to misunderstandings in communication. I have since rewritten the script ...

Data server partially restored

The data server has been successfully transported across the country and I have gotten it operational again with exception to the NWS warning and advisory products (horizontal warning crawl and the vertical scrolling advisory screen in the simulator).

Unfortunately, getting the warnings functional again is not going to be simple because the backend feed software for it (LDM) is intentionally designed to be hostile to feed requestors that are at the mercy of a frequently changing IP addr...

Data server update

I've successfully coordinated getting the data server relocated to a safe location. In addition, I was able to get it back online for a short time, and transfer the backups to multiple locations. I am arranging transport for the server in early June, and hoping it can be back in operation within the next month.

I am sorry that this situation has occurred, but am doing the best I can within my capabilities to recover from it.

Data server offline for the foreseeable future

On Sunday evening, the data server once again went offline, due to malicious actions on-site. This was the second such occurrence in two weeks, as it went offline earlier in the month for the same reason. In both instances, the network cable was intentionally removed.

It has become clear that I am going to need to physically relocate the server to another location, but since it is located several thousand miles away from where I reside, this is proving difficult to plan. It is also too ...

Data server outage 12/18

On December 18th, a major wind storm affected the northeast and did extensive damage to the power grid. As a result, the data server went offline around 10am ET after its UPS battery was depleted. Unfortunately I do not reside on site where the server is located, so I can only coordinate things remotely.

Power has been temporarily restored via backup generator, but the internet infrastructure is also offline due to the wind damage and there is no ETA on when it might be operational agai...

Observations outage Oct 16 - 23

Around October 16, the NWS website which the simulator data server uses for METAR observations changed their URLs for data access. This caused retrieving the METARs to fail, which led to an outage for all observations in the simulator.

This problem was straightforward to fix since it only required a code update and recompile on the data server side, and not in the simulator itself. As of October 23, observations should be functional in the simulator again.

Update

The simulator data and website had issues from approximately July 15th through the 24th. These have been resolved and things should be back to functioning properly as of the 24th of July. I am sorry for the inconvenience. Some were concerned this meant this project was abandoned, but that is not the case.

In addition, I have made some changes on the data server side to address crashes that were happening when the simulator attempted to display a warning crawl product that contained unex...

Radar functionality

As most of you are probably already aware, the radar in the simulator ceased functioning in mid December. This is a direct result of major changes that the National Weather Service made with the radar data on their servers. They have permanently discontinued the radar echo data source that the simulator used.

In order to get the radar in the simulator functioning again, it will in essence require a complete rewrite of the radar processing code to use the new data source, as it is that d...

Important Announcement

I wanted to give an update on the status of this project and other things. First, given the situation going on in the world right now, I understand that a lot of people have been severely affected financially. With that in mind, coupled with the difficulties I have been having in my life since last year which have affected this project, I have made the decision to suspend payment processing for now. At a future date, I will reevaluate whether to reinstate payment processing, dependent on how ...

Forecast data issues

You may have noticed in recent days that there were outages on the Travel Cities Forecast and Extended Forecast. These were caused by some problems with the National Weather Service CONUS forecast grids. These appear to have been fixed, so everything should be resolved now and functioning properly again.

Update now available

Version 4.0.00203 has been publicly released as of this afternoon. This includes a few bug fixes as well as a new feature that allows you to set time zones to locales. Everyone can get this release on the taiganet download page.

New Closed Beta 4.0.00202 now available

A new beta release has been made available to contributors.

Click here to go over to the taiganet forums and download it. You will need to be logged in to your forum account to proceed with the download. To see what's new since the last release, read the changelog, which is also on the forum.

Charge up front

Within the next few days, the payment processing will be switched to charge up front. For existing supporters, you will not see any change. The difference will be for new supporters. If you're considering pledging to this project, instead of having to wait until the beginning of the next month, once charge up front is operational, your pledge will be processed immediately. This will not apply to those who signed up to pledge this current month before charge up front was activated. 2019-02-16 21:27:46 +0000 UTC View Post